@betsythemuffin.bsky.social
Autodidactic to a fault, always. Nolite te bastardes carborundum. Technically not a Hugo Award winner.
Former software developer retraining in green (bio)chemistry. Techno-optimist; hopepunk. Towards partially automated luxury for all.
Former software developer retraining in green (bio)chemistry. Techno-optimist; hopepunk. Towards partially automated luxury for all.
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everybody should be a single-issue voter in this election and that issue is "how much do you hate Republicans and what are you willing to do about it?"
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
I would vote for a moderate if I thought they would end the filibuster, pack the court, and use every lever available to them to keep the GOP out of power. if the leftists are the ones promising that, I'll vote for them instead.
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
everybody should be a single-issue voter in this election and that issue is "how much do you hate Republicans and what are you willing to do about it?"
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
if Liz Cheney gets on stage and convinces me that she will host Nuremberg trials on C-SPAN then consider me Cheney 2028
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Epstein associates like Summers have ruined so many *other people's* lives; why should we clutch our pearls for him?
I care far more about every female scientist and trainee at Harvard whose work he unfairly dismissed.
I care far more about every female scientist and trainee at Harvard whose work he unfairly dismissed.
But also maybe they should ruin his life?
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
Larry Summers is 70. Firing him is not ruining his life.
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Epstein associates like Summers have ruined so many *other people's* lives; why should we clutch our pearls for him?
I care far more about every female scientist and trainee at Harvard whose work he unfairly dismissed.
I care far more about every female scientist and trainee at Harvard whose work he unfairly dismissed.
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But also maybe they should ruin his life?
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
Larry Summers is 70. Firing him is not ruining his life.
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
But also maybe they should ruin his life?
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
A guy asking Epstein for advice on how to sexually harass a junior colleague knows exactly what Epstein was and was clearly OK with it. I am frankly OK with someone ruining his life.
Evidently it ought to have happened decades ago.
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yes it is absolutely fine to fire people for being in the epstein files. do not try to pull this “oh i’m not for larry summers im just for employment justice” crap. being friends with *jeffrey freaking epstein* is not something that needs to be a protected category
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
yes it is absolutely fine to fire people for being in the epstein files. do not try to pull this “oh i’m not for larry summers im just for employment justice” crap. being friends with *jeffrey freaking epstein* is not something that needs to be a protected category
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The religion of the Christian ministers who are being pepper sprayed and slammed to the ground for protesting the kidnapping and torture of migrants is no less "real" than JD Vance's tradcath conversion. I'd very strongly argue that it's more real, in fact; it is more moral and more deeply rooted.
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The religion of the Christian ministers who are being pepper sprayed and slammed to the ground for protesting the kidnapping and torture of migrants is no less "real" than JD Vance's tradcath conversion. I'd very strongly argue that it's more real, in fact; it is more moral and more deeply rooted.
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One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
November 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
One thing that’s so frustrating living in a city center is the pervasive belief among suburbanites that your neighborhood is nothing more than a consumer experience for them and that the city should bend over backwards to ensure they can speed as fast as possible on their way to buy treats in it.
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"Why are our boys falling behind??" Maybe it's because this is what it looks like when the boys are ahead. The moment women got an opening they burst through like nomadic hordes into a decadent satrapy
Larry Summers (World Bank/Clinton admin/Harvard president/Obama admin) yukking it up with Jeffrey Epstein about women being dumb and society coming down too hard on perverts makes me wonder how all women are not constantly Becoming The Joker
November 16, 2025 at 5:43 AM
"Why are our boys falling behind??" Maybe it's because this is what it looks like when the boys are ahead. The moment women got an opening they burst through like nomadic hordes into a decadent satrapy
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also I think it’s good actually that Bluesky isn’t really treating celebrities or high profile people differently from anyone else with regards to moderation, even if you don’t agree with those decisions
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
also I think it’s good actually that Bluesky isn’t really treating celebrities or high profile people differently from anyone else with regards to moderation, even if you don’t agree with those decisions
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Something centre-right journalists absolutely love is the "enrages environmentalists" framing
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
November 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Something centre-right journalists absolutely love is the "enrages environmentalists" framing
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room
archive.ph/0PsH4
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By turning it into a cultural issue rather than a material one with only one cogent side
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
By turning it into a cultural issue rather than a material one with only one cogent side
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Please also remember that when a T&S team is extremely overworked and under-resourced, a massive write-in protest based on that one-sided presentation of the facts will do absolutely nothing but slow down the work even further, because now there's an extra 20,000 emails they have to weed out.
November 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Please also remember that when a T&S team is extremely overworked and under-resourced, a massive write-in protest based on that one-sided presentation of the facts will do absolutely nothing but slow down the work even further, because now there's an extra 20,000 emails they have to weed out.
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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The actual controversial “most woke opinion” is that liberalism is good, tolerance and pluralism are really important values we should protect in law, protecting these values requires sincere deliberation from our leaders, our citizenry, and our judiciary about sometimes-contradictory values
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The actual controversial “most woke opinion” is that liberalism is good, tolerance and pluralism are really important values we should protect in law, protecting these values requires sincere deliberation from our leaders, our citizenry, and our judiciary about sometimes-contradictory values
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We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.
November 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We are going Super Social Justice Blue Hair and Pronouns. We are calling things "gay" and "queer" as compliments and honorifics. We are proudly being buzzkills and harpies and feminine and vegan and giving a sincere fucking shit about the environment and climate and well-being of the community.
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What he did with Lewinsky was very gross (on his end!) and bad but she could have walked into a bar and bought herself an alcoholic drink at the time
November 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
What he did with Lewinsky was very gross (on his end!) and bad but she could have walked into a bar and bought herself an alcoholic drink at the time
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Say what you will about Bill Clinton, he was a confirmed Democrat, which is to say a person who was sexually interested in adults
Very funny development that Bill Clinton is not only not implicated in the emails, Epstein explicitly says “nah he was never on the island”. Slick Willie lives again
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Say what you will about Bill Clinton, he was a confirmed Democrat, which is to say a person who was sexually interested in adults
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We are done with “nuance”! The NYT covered every inch of HRC’s emails as if they were precious gems recovered from the Louvre, and on Trump being tied to all this sh*t…nothing?!
Also guys I am not in love with NYT, I don’t work there anymore, I am so happy to be at Bloomberg, I think it is absolutely the best and you should all subscribe! And maybe I should have kept quiet about this, but I just think we could all be examining things with some more nuance here!
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We are done with “nuance”! The NYT covered every inch of HRC’s emails as if they were precious gems recovered from the Louvre, and on Trump being tied to all this sh*t…nothing?!
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legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
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you can't not be annoyed by people. i am annoyed by people all the time. i try not to make this my intellectual north star
November 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
you can't not be annoyed by people. i am annoyed by people all the time. i try not to make this my intellectual north star
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imho an essential role of a religious person of good-faith in the 21st century is to fight against the notion that "religious faith" is necessarily an emotional/extra-rational experience. one key reason why is "consumer technology encourages emotional/sentimental experiences"
November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
imho an essential role of a religious person of good-faith in the 21st century is to fight against the notion that "religious faith" is necessarily an emotional/extra-rational experience. one key reason why is "consumer technology encourages emotional/sentimental experiences"
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Again, I know Vance is a convert and who knows what the customs of the savage Scots-Irish are but someone needs to explain to him that it’s unusual for the Bishop of Rome to criticize your personal behavior this frequently
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Again, I know Vance is a convert and who knows what the customs of the savage Scots-Irish are but someone needs to explain to him that it’s unusual for the Bishop of Rome to criticize your personal behavior this frequently